Content Area: English
Grade Level: 11-12
Domain: Reading - Literature
Cluster: Key Idea and Details
Standards: 2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide and objective summary of the text.
What understandings are desired?
Students will understand that:(U)
•There are two major textual themes in the novel
•The two major themes evolve to create the integral elements of the story
•The focal themes in a novel define the text by its end
What essential questions will be considered?
Essential Questions:(Q)
•How do Franny's and Zooey's relationships with Seymour differ?
•How do their respective relationships create their major differences and subsequent conflict?
•Why do Franny's and Zooey's differences serve as conflict and resolution, and are their differences the defining aspects of the novel? (What are the novel's intentions?)
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Students will know:(K)
Students will be able to:(S)
•Terminology
Franny and Zooey are, at times, examples of
fatalism, existentialism, and absurdism.
•Critical Details
Seymour's death and views have defined
Franny and Zooey.
•Sequence and Timelines
Franny grows up for her realizations. Zooey
exhibits love and caring. Both change for the
better over time.
•Express how the themes define the novel.
•Make sense of how themes are developing.
•Decide what the two major themes are.
•Contrast the two major themes and their importance.
•Relate the integral elements of the story to their own
experiences.
•Realize that as a text is defined, we are left with the
author's intentions, which are likely important to consider
in life.
Stage 1 - Identify Desired Results
Grade Level: 11-12
Domain: Reading - Literature
Cluster: Key Idea and Details
Standards: 2. Determine two or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to produce a complex account; provide and objective summary of the text.
What understandings are desired?
•The two major themes evolve to create the integral elements of the story
•The focal themes in a novel define the text by its end
What essential questions will be considered?
•How do their respective relationships create their major differences and subsequent conflict?
•Why do Franny's and Zooey's differences serve as conflict and resolution, and are their differences the defining aspects of the novel? (What are the novel's intentions?)
What key knowledge and skills will students acquire as a result of this unit?
Franny and Zooey are, at times, examples of
fatalism, existentialism, and absurdism.
•Critical Details
Seymour's death and views have defined
Franny and Zooey.
•Sequence and Timelines
Franny grows up for her realizations. Zooey
exhibits love and caring. Both change for the
better over time.
•Make sense of how themes are developing.
•Decide what the two major themes are.
•Contrast the two major themes and their importance.
•Relate the integral elements of the story to their own
experiences.
•Realize that as a text is defined, we are left with the
author's intentions, which are likely important to consider
in life.
2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe.